lab@qubix.UUCP (07/06/83)
When trying to set up some vi abbreviations in my .login file,
I was constantly stymied by an annoying error message:
Unmatched ".
which came from the following lines of my .login file:
setenv EXINIT 'set ai redraw sm wm=14\
ab qad Larry Bickford, decvax\!decwrl\!qubix\!lab'
If you see a " anywhere on those lines, I would be happy to know.
This is doubly infuriating since later in .login I have a WORKING syntax:
setenv EXINIT "$EXINIT"'\
<more exinit initializers>\
<last initializer>'
I have tried rearranging the first group in a ton of ways over the
two lines (including the second form), but get the same idiotic
error. If I move the abbreviation to the second setenv, or split
the first into two setenv's (each on its own line), it works.
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???
Larry Bickford, {ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!qubix!lab